Brendan Leipsic of the WHL Portland Winterhawks got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for drinking the opposing goalie’s water bottle. No, for real:

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I’m gonna assume there’s a context here, like the goalie has OCD and Leipsic knows it and the refs know he knows it, so they’re penalizing him for being a jerk. Or maybe it’s the other way around? Maybe Lepisic suffers from chronic drymouth, and he’d been trying to make it back to the bench but he’d been stuck on the ice forever and was gonna die if he didn’t take a drink.

It’s considered taunting, because it’s meant to antagonize either the goalie or one of his teammates into doing something about it.

That said, after watching Portland destroy Vancouver in Games 3&4 to end the series, the only thing that would’ve helped the Giants was a bus crash. It was hard to tell how the WHL punished Portland for their rules violations given their dominance the whole year.